فصل

فَاصِلٌ ذ [as an act. part. n.] Separating; dividing; or making a separation, or partition. (Msb.) ― -b2- It is said in a trad., مَنْ أَنْفَقَ نَفَقَةً فَاصِلَةً فِى سَبِيل ا@للّٰهِ فَهِىَ بِسَبْعِمِائَة ضِعَفٍ, (S, * O, K, *) meaning [ Whoso expends expense ] such as distinguishes between his belief and his unbelief [i. e. such as distinguishes him as a believer, it shall be rewarded with seven hundred fold ]: (S, O, K, TA:) or, as some say, such as he cuts off from his property. (TA.) And one says كَلَامٌ فَاصِلٌ (K and TA in art. فرز) and ↓ فَيْصَلٌ (A ibid.) i. q. فَارِزٌ (O and K, and TA ibid.) i. e. Discriminating language. (TA ibid.) And حُكْمٌ فَاصِلٌ and ↓ فَيْصَلٌ [ A judgment, or judicial sentence, that is decisive, and therefore meaning,] that has effect; and in like manner, ↓ حُكُومَةٌ فَيْصَلٌ: and ↓ طَعْنَةٌ فَيْصَلٌ [ An act of piercing or thrusting with a spear or the like] that decides between the two antagonists. (M, K, TA.) As an epithet applied to God, الفَاصِلُ means The Decider between the خَلْق [i. e. the human race, or these and other created beings, ] on the day of resurrection. (Zj, TA.)